The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

Because the private sector has evolved processes and metrics for growth over many generations, for-profit models are more likely to efficiently accomplish their goals.

Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.

In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.

CEOs shouldn't worry about their budget all the time - on a day-to-day basis, they should work on managing their company, building an awesome product, developing key relationships, identifying distribution channels, etc.

Backing a company is a serious business.

The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more a type of equity - one where the valuation hasn't been determined yet.

Addepar not only helps improve private wealth management workflows so that advisors can do a better job at what they currently do, but it also helps build a data-driven and integrated view on top of the many important financial decisions within a client portfolio.

In a well-run tech company, small, elite groups who have ownership in the company are given the freedom to define and achieve their tasks in line with a broader mission that they have internalized as their own.

A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

There will be trillions of dollars under Addepar. You will have tons of money and information flowing through it.

I work 110-hour weeks.

Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

I think I was really lucky to work as a little kid at PayPal, grew up in the Valley as a coder.

The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.

If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.

I believe we live in a positive sum world and wealth isn't just taken or moved around; it's mostly created.

Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.